This family kicked off the holiday season with a lighthearted guessing game involving Christmas-themed words taped to foreheads.

Most of the fun came from asking yes-or-no questions and slowly narrowing down the answer. One brother, known for loving obscure Christmas lore, added a particularly niche entry to the hat.

What he didn’t expect was how quickly it would be figured out.

AITA for Guessing my Brother’s Christmas Word?

I will try to make this as short as possible.

After Thanksgiving, my extended family played a game where we all wrote christmas-related words, put them in a hat, picked them out randomly, then taped them to our forehead, where we asked yes or no questions to figure out what our thing was.

For reference, I put down “The Nice List”, and my uncle got it.

Fun!

When I put a word on my head, my cousin said he didn’t know what it even was.

So I told my brother, “I think I have your word.”

He loves obscure Christmas lore, and it made sense he would use it for this game.

So I asked, “Am I an object you can hold in your hands?”

People said no with my uncle also saying “I don’t know what that is.”

So I was certain of the answer. “Am I the Krampus?”

Ha! Obscure is right.

I won right as the game started; I was the second person to ask a question.

My brother got upset that I ruined the fun of putting the Krampus as a word in the hat.

What do you think?

Her mother-in-law believes being a parent means full access to everything her daughter says, regardless of context. Meanwhile, she sees trust as essential—especially for a teen who already feels unheard—and worries that betraying it would shut Riley down completely.

Now she’s asking Reddit whether protecting a teenager’s confidence makes her irresponsible…or simply a safe adult in Riley’s corner.

This person says NTA, though age might have something to do with it.

This person says NTA, though this is silly.

And this person has a similar story.

If you bring Krampus to a guessing game, you can’t be mad when someone knows their Christmas demons.

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